About My Grandparents

Share a memory of your grandparents or an older person you loved.

My grandparents on my dad's side of the family passed away before I was born. I did not get to know my grandparents on my mom's side of the family well when I was small because we lived on the mission field. However, I did live with my grandparents when I moved to the US at the age of 14. I lived with them for two years. My grandmother was quite a prayer warrior and was still teaching an adult Sunday School in her 70's. She was an outstanding cook. We did the dishes together each evening. We had to do the "she" things first and then the "he" things. To her the pots and pans were the "he" things! Grandpa spent a lot of time pulling up weeds in the yard. He was adamant about having no weeds in his yard. Both of them loved to do crossword puzzles and would daily run to get the paper. Whoever got it first got to do that day's crossword puzzle. They played Scrabble and Anagrams a lot.

As young children we adopted a missionary couple as our grandparents. Robert and Pearl Ingram chose not to have their own children so that they could invest more time with the people of Guatemala. They would have made wonderful parents. We loved them dearly! Mr. Ingram was the one who taught me how to fill a lettuce leaf full of sugar and eat it like a bag full of sugar! Yikes! No wonder I still love sugary things!